| January 1 | Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville |
| January 1 | KHAS TV channel 5 in Hastings, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 1 | KOSA TV channel 7 in Odessa, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 1 | Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) declares independence from Egypt and U.K. |
| January 1 | WREC (now WREG) TV channel 3 in Memphis, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 2 | Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections |
| January 5 | Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| January 6 | Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
| January 6 | KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| January 7 | Vinoo Mankad scores 231 vs. New Zealand, 413 opening stand with Roy |
| January 8 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken |
| January 8 | Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 and stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single) |
| January 9 | Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers |
| January 9 | Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan |
| January 10 | Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| January 14 | Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad |
| January 14 | Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti" |
| January 15 | Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
| January 15 | D Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia |
| January 15 | KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| January 15 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 |
| January 16 | Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine |
| January 18 | East Germany forms own army (National People's Army) |
| January 19 | Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field |
| January 20 | Buddy Holly records "Blue Days Black Night" in Nashville |
| January 21 | "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances |
| January 21 | William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker |
| January 22 | 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles |
| January 22 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 22 | Canadian Football Council forms |
| January 24 | 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) |
| January 25 | 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) |
| January 26 | 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| January 26 | Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session |
| January 26 | Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 26 | Porkkala military base returned to Finland by U.S.S.R. |
| January 27 | NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium |
| January 28 | Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) |
| January 29 | Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich |
| January 30 | Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| January 30 | KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 30 | KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| January 30 | Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed |
| January 31 | French government of Mollet forms |
| January 31 | Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil |
| February 1 | Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
| February 1 | WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | Coasters sign with Atlantic Records |
| February 3 | Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot |
| February 3 | Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events |
| February 4 | AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training |
| February 5 | 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| February 5 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| February 5 | New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
| February 6 | Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing |
| February 6 | French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers |
| February 6 | University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black) |
| February 7 | Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled |
| February 8 | Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die |
| February 9 | -5 degrees F (15 degrees C) in Sicily |
| February 9 | KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| February 9 | R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
| February 10 | Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA |
| February 10 | "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
| February 12 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open |
| February 13 | KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland |
| February 14 | 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
| February 14 | Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union |
| February 14 | Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate |
| February 15 | Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white |
| February 15 | Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
| February 16 | Britain abolishes death penalty |
| February 17 | Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB |
| February 17 | Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz and Oppelt of AUT |
| February 17 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA |
| February 17 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA |
| February 19 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 20 | WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 22 | 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United |
| February 22 | Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| February 23 | 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow |
| February 23 | Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin |
| February 25 | Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference |
| February 26 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| February 26 | Writers Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge |
| February 27 | Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| February 27 | Female suffrage in Egypt |
| February 28 | 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Massachusetts |
| February 28 | Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory |
| February 29 | Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan |
| February 29 | President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term |
| March 2 | Morocco tears up the Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France |
| March 3 | Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2) |
| March 3 | Indonesian government of Harahap resigns |
| March 3 | Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY |
| March 3 | Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne) |
| March 5 | "King Kong," 1st televised |
| March 5 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| March 9 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles |
| March 9 | Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England |
| March 10 | General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios |
| March 10 | Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph) |
| March 11 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 12 | Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24) |
| March 13 | New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win |
| March 15 | "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 2,715 performances |
| March 15 | Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ |
| March 16 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright |
| March 16 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins |
| March 17 | 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball |
| March 19 | Biggest NBA margin of victory - Minnesota Lakers-133, St. Louis Hawks-75 |
| March 20 | 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends |
| March 20 | E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP |
| March 20 | Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes |
| March 20 | Tunisia gains independence from France |
| March 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| March 20 | Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp |
| March 21 | 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win |
| March 22 | Death penalty against KPM-director Leon Jungschlaeger |
| March 22 | "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 383 performances |
| March 22 | Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis, Jr. premieres in New York City |
| March 23 | 18th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71 |
| March 23 | Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republic in Commonwealth (National Day) |
| March 23 | Sudan becomes independent |
| March 26 | Medic Alert Foundation forms |
| March 26 | Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One |
| March 27 | French commandos land in Algeria |
| March 27 | U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker" |
| March 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| April 1 | 10th Tony Awards: Diary of Anne Frank and Damn Yankees win |
| April 1 | KPIC TV channel 4 in Roseburg, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 1 | Violent clashes in Algeria, kills at least 380 |
| April 2 | Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester |
| April 2 | Soap operas "As the World Turns" and "Edge of Night" premieres on TV |
| April 3 | Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated |
| April 3 | German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed |
| April 3 | "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 461 performances |
| April 4 | Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London |
| April 6 | Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison |
| April 7 | 10th NBA Championship: Ph Warriors beat Ft. Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 1 |
| April 7 | Spain relinquishes her protectorate in Morocco |
| April 8 | 20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke, Jr. wins, shooting a 289 |
| April 8 | 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Is SC |
| April 8 | M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon |
| April 10 | Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs |
| April 10 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
| April 11 | French government decides to sends 200,000 reservists to Algeria |
| April 11 | Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites |
| April 12 | Bandaranaike government forms in Ceylon |
| April 13 | KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 14 | Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder |
| April 14 | "Plain and Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 476 performances |
| April 15 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 16 | 1st solar powered radios go on sale |
| April 17 | Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns |
| April 17 | Kominform disbands |
| April 17 | Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain |
| April 17 | U.S.S.R.'s Cominform (Parliament) dissolves |
| April 17 | Willie Mosconi sinks 150 consecutive balls in a billiard tournament |
| April 18 | Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire |
| April 18 | Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) |
| April 19 | 1st ML baseball game in New Jersey, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium |
| April 19 | 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14 |
| April 19 | U.S. actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III |
| April 21 | Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1 |
| April 22 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| April 23 | U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses |
| April 24 | AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game |
| April 25 | Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" goes #1 |
| April 25 | Noel Coward's musical "South Sea Bubble," premieres in London |
| April 27 | Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election |
| April 27 | Heavyweight champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing |
| April 28 | Last French troop leave Vietnam |
| April 28 | Reds Frank Robinson hits his 1st of 586 home runs |
| April 29 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| April 29 | WLUC TV channel 6 in Marquette, MI (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 29 | WSPA TV channel 7 in G'ville-Spartanburg, South Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 29 | WWBT TV channel 12 in Richmond, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 2 | U.S. Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus |
| May 2 | U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation |
| May 3 | A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000') |
| May 3 | Frank Loesser's musical "Most Happy Fella," premieres in New York City |
| May 3 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 678 performances |
| May 4 | Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam |
| May 4 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| May 5 | 82nd Kentucky Derby: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:03.4 |
| May 5 | Broekster Boys soccer team forms in Damwoude |
| May 5 | Jim Bailey (U.S.) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in Los Angeles California |
| May 5 | World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo |
| May 6 | Gus Bell (Reds) homers off Bob Miller in both ends of a double header |
| May 6 | WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 7 | Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300 |
| May 7 | New York Giant Bill White, homers in his 1st at bat |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett |
| May 8 | John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger," premieres in London |
| May 10 | French government sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria |
| May 10 | KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, California (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 11 | Pinky Lee Show, last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 12 | Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0 |
| May 12 | East Pakistan struck by cyclone and tidal waves |
| May 13 | Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens |
| May 16 | Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China |
| May 16 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| May 16 | Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage" |
| May 16 | Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey vs. Australians at the Oval |
| May 18 | Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy |
| May 18 | Mickey Mantle hits home run from both sides of plate for record 3rd time |
| May 18 | Queen Juliana opens Rembrandt fairs in Amsterdam |
| May 19 | 82nd Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Fabius wins in 1:58.4 |
| May 19 | Pirate Dale Long hits 9th-inning home run, 1st home run in 8 straight games |
| May 20 | Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll |
| May 20 | Jordan government of Samir resigns |
| May 21 | Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms |
| May 21 | U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll |
| May 21 | WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 22 | "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| May 22 | KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 23 | World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco |
| May 25 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Haurietis aquas |
| May 26 | Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103 |
| May 26 | Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 |
| May 27 | French raid in Algiers |
| May 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 28 | Dale Long becomes 1st to hit home runs in 8 straight games |
| May 28 | Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus |
| May 29 | Arnold Schonberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres |
| May 29 | WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, Florida (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| May 30 | Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, Florida |
| May 30 | Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st home run out of Yankee Stadium |
| May 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| May 31 | Mickey Mantle home run just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof |
| June 2 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow |
| June 3 | 3rd class travel on British Railways ends |
| June 3 | KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, Arizona (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| June 3 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Pittsburgh Golf Open |
| June 4 | Speech by Khrushchev blasting Stalin made public |
| June 5 | Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const |
| June 5 | "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 7 | Singapore government of Marshall resigns |
| June 8 | Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government |
| June 8 | WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| June 9 | Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed |
| June 10 | 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm |
| June 10 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 13 | After 72 years, Britain gives up Suez Canal to Egyptian control |
| June 13 | Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrates 50/KVP 49 |
| June 13 | Real Madrid wins 1st Europe Cup |
| June 13 | "Shangri-La" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| June 14 | "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 221 performances |
| June 16 | 56th U.S. Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY |
| June 16 | 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8 |
| June 17 | Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister |
| June 18 | Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt as Brits leave Suez Canal |
| June 19 | Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films |
| June 20 | At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there) |
| June 20 | Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in New Jersey, 74 killed |
| June 21 | Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere |
| June 21 | East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners |
| June 21 | Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters |
| June 23 | Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt |
| June 23 | "Jimmy Durante Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 23 | "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8 |
| June 24 | 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge |
| June 24 | "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV |
| June 24 | WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 25 | 51 die in collision of "Andrea Doria" and "Stockholm" (Cape Cod) |
| June 25 | WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 27 | Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings |
| June 28 | 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates Chicago, Illinois |
| June 28 | Riots break out in Poznan Poland, 38 die |
| June 29 | Charles Dumas, makes 1st high jump over 7' (2.13 m)-LA, California |
| June 29 | Federal interstate highway system act signed |
| June 29 | Prime Minister Drees refuses resignation of queen Juliana (Greet Hofmans) |
| June 30 | Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow |
| June 30 | "Pipe Dream" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 245 performances |
| June 30 | "Shangri-La" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 21 performances |
| June 30 | United DC-7 and TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128 |
| July 1 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| July 1 | Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show |
| July 1 | Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan |
| July 2 | Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" |
| July 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
| July 4 | Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia |
| July 4 | U.S. most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville, Maryland |
| July 5 | France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria |
| July 6 | 70th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ken Rosewall (62 46 75 64) |
| July 6 | 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England |
| July 6 | Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honor to outstanding pitcher |
| July 6 | Indians' Jim Busby hits 2nd grand slam in two days in a 4-2 win vs. the Kansas City A's |
| July 7 | 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61) |
| July 7 | 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings |
| July 7 | Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres |
| July 8 | Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Syracuse Golf Open |
| July 8 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
| July 9 | Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand |
| July 10 | 23rd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington D.C. |
| July 10 | 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike |
| July 10 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| July 13 | WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 14 | Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 |
| July 15 | Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational |
| July 15 | Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| July 16 | Detroit Tigers and Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million |
| July 16 | Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR |
| July 16 | King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England |
| July 16 | Last Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus under a canvas tent |
| July 18 | Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary |
| July 19 | U.S. refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
| July 20 | France recognizes Tunisia's independence |
| July 20 | Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
| July 20 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island |
| July 20 | Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford ties AL record of 6 straight strike-outs |
| July 21 | Cincinnati Red pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins |
| July 21 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak |
| July 23 | Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph |
| July 23 | Joe Cronin and Hank Greenberg inducted into Hall of Fame |
| July 24 | Brendan Behan's "Quare Fellow," premieres in London |
| July 24 | Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jesey City |
| July 25 | 38th PGA Championship: Jack Burke at Blue Hill CC Boston |
| July 25 | Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm |
| July 25 | Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force |
| July 26 | Egypt seizes Suez Canal |
| July 27 | Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings at Manchester |
| July 29 | 11th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Cornelius |
| July 29 | Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record) |
| July 29 | WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 30 | U.S. motto, In God We Trust, authorized |
| July 31 | Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings, 19-90 for match |
| August 1 | KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 3 | Willie Williams of U.S. sets 100 meter record at 10.1 |
| August 4 | 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph) |
| August 4 | Elvis Presley releases "Hound Dog" |
| August 4 | Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands |
| August 5 | KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, GU (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 5 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA All American Golf Open |
| August 5 | WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 7 | Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans |
| August 7 | British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt |
| August 7 | Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die |
| August 8 | Fire and explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium |
| August 8 | WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins |
| August 9 | 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama |
| August 9 | South African women demonstrate against pass laws |
| August 10 | 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000) |
| August 11 | 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620 |
| August 11 | Elvis Presley releases "Don't Be Cruel" |
| August 12 | KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 12 | Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
| August 13 | WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 16 | Adlai E. Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate |
| August 16 | Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4 |
| August 17 | Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany |
| August 18 | Cincinnati Reds (8) and Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 home runs in a 9 inning game |
| August 18 | Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1 |
| August 19 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| August 20 | Republicans convene at Cow Palace |
| August 21 | WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 22 | Elvis Presley begins filming "The Reno Brothers" (Love Me Tender) |
| August 22 | President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco |
| August 24 | 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C. |
| August 25 | To make room for Enos Slaughter, New York Yankees release Phil Rizzuto |
| August 26 | KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 26 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Denver Golf Open |
| August 26 | Yankees announce purchase of outfielder Enos Slaughter from KC |
| August 27 | Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game |
| August 28 | England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series |
| August 29 | French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis |
| August 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
| August 30 | White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas |
| September 1 | Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory |
| September 1 | KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 2 | Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India) |
| September 2 | Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings |
| September 2 | Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service |
| September 3 | Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee |
| September 5 | 20 die in a train crash in Springer NM |
| September 7 | Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+ |
| September 8 | Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks |
| September 9 | 70th U.S. Womens Tennis: Shirley J Fry beats Althea Gibson (63 64) |
| September 9 | 76th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Lewis Hoad (46 62 63 63) |
| September 9 | African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde forms |
| September 9 | Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan's Show |
| September 10 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| September 10 | Louisville Kentucky public schools integrates |
| September 10 | WSYE (now WETM) TV chan 18 in Elmira-Corning, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| September 11 | Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th home run |
| September 11 | Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| September 11 | Yankees Yogi Berra ties career record for home runs (236) by a catcher |
| September 12 | Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school |
| September 13 | Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes |
| September 13 | Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice |
| September 14 | 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington D.C. |
| September 16 | Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
| September 17 | Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school |
| September 17 | Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year |
| September 18 | Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 home runs in a seaon |
| September 19 | 1st International conference of black writers and artists meets (Sorbonne) |
| September 21 | Yankees set dubious record, stranding 20 men on base Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but Red Sox win 13-9 in Fenway |
| September 24 | 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland) |
| September 25 | 1st transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Scot-Canada) |
| September 25 | Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0 |
| September 25 | Transatlantic telephone cable (Newfoundland-Oban) is used |
| September 28 | "Johnny Carson Show," TV Variety; last airs on CBS-TV |
| September 28 | RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records |
| September 29 | "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle and Teresa Brewer peaks at #87 |
| September 29 | New York Yankees Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd home run of season |
| September 29 | "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 30 | Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th home run |
| September 30 | White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses) |
| October 1 | Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track |
| October 1 | Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens |
| October 2 | 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC |
| October 3 | Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series |
| October 4 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| October 5 | Yogi Berra becomes 4th Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
| October 6 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad |
| October 6 | Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine |
| October 6 | South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan |
| October 7 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open |
| October 8 | Don Larsen, New York, pitches only perfect World Series game, vs Brooklyn |
| October 9 | 10th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 1-1 at Montreal |
| October 10 | Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi |
| October 10 | On Skowron's grand slammer New York Yankees beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7 |
| October 11 | 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day |
| October 11 | AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners |
| October 11 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| October 12 | Marga Klompe becomes 1st Dutch women elected minister |
| October 13 | WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins |
| October 14 | Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in New York City |
| October 14 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Arkansas Golf Open |
| October 15 | Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8) |
| October 15 | William J Brennan, Jr. appointed to Supreme Court |
| October 15 | Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series |
| October 16 | "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres |
| October 16 | William J. Brennan, Jr. becomes a Supreme Court Justice |
| October 17 | England's 1st large scale nuclear power station opens |
| October 17 | Pakistan defeat Australia by nine wickets at 1st attempt |
| October 20 | 58 degrees F (15 degrees C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high) |
| October 20 | Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft |
| October 21 | Betty Dodd wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| October 22 | France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella |
| October 22 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| October 23 | 1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast |
| October 23 | Revolt against Stalinist policies begins in Hungary |
| October 24 | AP names Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year |
| October 24 | Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary |
| October 25 | White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him |
| October 26 | U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved |
| October 26 | Vietnam promulgates its constitution |
| October 28 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus |
| October 29 | Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, NBC News, team up |
| October 29 | International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco |
| October 29 | Israeli paratroopers drop into Sinai to open Straits of Tiran |
| October 30 | Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group They agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961 |
| October 30 | Israel captures Egyptian militay post at El-Thamad |
| October 31 | 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek |
| October 31 | Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
| October 31 | Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service |
| November 1 | Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union |
| November 1 | Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms |
| November 1 | Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection |
| November 1 | Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact |
| November 1 | Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen |
| November 1 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum |
| November 2 | Hungary appeals for United Nations assistance against Soviet invasion |
| November 2 | Israel captures Gaza and Sheham |
| November 3 | "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV) |
| November 4 | 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest |
| November 4 | Israel captures Straits of Tiran and reach Suez Canal Egypt |
| November 4 | U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest |
| November 5 | Britain and France land forces in Egypt |
| November 5 | Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized |
| November 5 | Israel liberates Sharm-el-Sheikh, reopening Gulf of Aqaba |
| November 5 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime |
| November 6 | Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary |
| November 6 | President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D) |
| November 8 | U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary |
| November 9 | Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St. Louis, to become NWA champ |
| November 10 | Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in New York City |
| November 12 | Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted |
| November 13 | Supreme Court strikes down segregation of races on public buses |
| November 14 | Hungarian revolt put down |
| November 15 | Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City |
| November 15 | "Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances |
| November 17 | Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate) |
| November 17 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| November 18 | Morocco gains independence |
| November 21 | Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP and 1st-ever Cy Young Award |
| November 22 | 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne |
| November 22 | Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
| November 24 | 44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27 |
| November 24 | "Pajama Game" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1063 performances |
| November 26 | "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC |
| November 26 | U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks |
| November 27 | F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Netherlands |
| November 28 | Photography begins on "... and God Created Women" |
| November 29 | "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 925 performances |
| November 30 | 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards and the News) |
| November 30 | Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| December 1 | Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympics marathon (2:25:00.0) |
| December 1 | "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 73 performances |
| December 1 | Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year |
| December 1 | Indonesian Vice President Mohammed Hatta, resigns |
| December 2 | Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba |
| December 3 | England and France pull troops out of Egypt |
| December 3 | KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft. Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| December 3 | Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52) |
| December 4 | 22nd Heisman Trophy Award: Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| December 5 | Thornton Wilder's "Matchmaker," premieres in New York City |
| December 6 | "Happy Hunting" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 413 performances |
| December 6 | Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa |
| December 7 | Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel |
| December 8 | 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia |
| December 8 | 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0 |
| December 8 | Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks |
| December 10 | Establishment of MPLA in Angola |
| December 11 | Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin and Wroclaw Poland |
| December 13 | Dodgers trade Jackie Robinson to Giants for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $35,000 Robinson retires |
| December 14 | Paul-Henri Spaak appointed Secretary-General of NATO |
| December 15 | Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
| December 15 | KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 15 | WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 16 | "Fanny" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 888 performances |
| December 18 | Israeli flag hoisted on Mount Sinai |
| December 18 | Japan admitted to UN |
| December 18 | Phil Rizzuto signs as New York Yankee radio-TV announcer |
| December 18 | "To Tell the Truth" debuts on CBS-TV |
| December 20 | Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra |
| December 20 | Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses |
| December 22 | Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
| December 22 | "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances |
| December 24 | Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt |
| December 24 | "I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication |
| December 27 | 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Adelaide (5-0) |
| December 27 | Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games |
| December 28 | Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV |
| December 30 | New York Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game |
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